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Book cover for Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back

Go and Come Back

Joan Abelove
Paperback - $11.95

You live in the Peruvian jungle. The only people you know are your fellow villagers. And then, one day, two strangers arrive....

Late one day, just before dinnertime in the Peruvian jungle village of Poincushmana, two old white ladies from New York ...

Book cover for Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back

Go and Come Back

Joan Abelove
Prebound - $26.95

You live in the Peruvian jungle. The only people you know are your fellow villagers. And then, one day, two strangers arrive....

Late one day, just before dinnertime in the Peruvian jungle village of Poincushmana, two old white ladies from New York ...

Book cover for Kathy Allert: Mexican Girl and Boy Paper Dolls

Mexican Girl and Boy Paper Dolls

Kathy Allert
Paperback - $9.95

Dress 2 dolls (boy and girl) in 32 authentically detailed costumes, including fancy riding (charro) outfits, the bullfight outfit known as the "suit of lights" and the china poblana, a national costume for girls. Also included is a colorful array of ...

Book cover for Jorge Argueta: Alfredito Flies Home

Alfredito Flies Home

Jorge Argueta
Hardcover - $29.95

Alfredito and his family are getting ready to return to El Salvador for Christmas. It will be their first visit back since they left as refugees and made their way to California on foot. But this time they're flying! Excitement mounts as Alfredito an ...

Book cover for Carmen T. Bernier-Grand: Shake It, Morena!

Shake It, Morena! : And Other Folklore from Puerto Rico

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Paperback - $12.95



Book cover for Anne-Laure Bondoux: The Killer's Tears

The Killer's Tears

Anne-Laure Bondoux
Paperback - $15.95

On the afternoon when Angel Allegria arrives at the Poloverdos' farmhouse, he kills the farmer and his wife. But he spares their child, Paolo- a young boy who will claim this as the day on which he was born. Together the killer and the boy begin a ne ...

Book cover for Ann Cameron: Colibri

Colibri

Ann Cameron
Mass Market Paperbound - $11.95

When Tzunun was little, her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "hummingbird." At age four, Colibri is kidnapped from her parents in Guatemala City and ever since she's traveled with Uncle, the ex-soldier and wandering beggar, who renamed her R ...

Book cover for Teresa Cardenas: Old Dog

Old Dog

Teresa Cardenas
Paperback - $15.95



Book cover for Victor Carvajal: Mamire, el Ultimo Nino / Mamire, the Last Child

Mamire, el Ultimo Nino / Mamire, the Last Child

Victor Carvajal
Paperback - $19.95

Mamire is the last grandchild, the last student, and the last shepherd left in his small rural village in the mountains of Chile. Entire families have left the village lured by the fascination of the cities. Shortly before he is about to leave with h ...

Book cover for Bob Cattell: Butter-Finger

Butter-Finger

Bob Cattell
Paperback - $15.95

Riccardo is the smallest boy in his class at school in the West Indies, and he loves the game of cricket. He's a walking cricket encyclopedia and can rattle off the averages of every West Indian test match player in history, the names of all the cric ...

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